Waltham organization donates soccer balls to Italian Home for Children

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Posted Apr. 8, 2014 at 5:00 PM

Posted Apr. 8, 2014 at 5:00 PM

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Global Premier Soccer - Massachusetts traveled recently to the Italian Home for Children in Jamaica Plain to donate soccer balls to the children to use on the organization's soccer field.

Waltham-based Global Premier Soccer prides itself in giving back to the community, according to the organization. Since spring 2009, GPS has made a commitment to providing player development opportunities to underserved communities of all ages, genders, background and abilities that do not have the financial means to benefit from club soccer though the Inner-City initiative.

Established in 1918, during the first 50 years, Franciscan sisters devoted their lives to raising and teaching thousands of children at the Home. As decades passed, the needs of the children arriving at the Home began to reflect more complex crises. Today, the Home's focus is providing residential and day treatment services for children of all nationalities with emotional and behavioral needs.

Licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Home provides a comprehensive network of services to boys and girls with emotional challenges between the ages of 4 and 14. All of the services provided by the Italian Home for Children are directed toward the primary goal: the reunification of the children with their own or alternative families and/or the preservation of families at risk.

"At GPS we pride ourselves in being part of the local community," said Izabella Miranda, GPS marketing. "Our philosophy is focused towards helping with the development of deserving young people and we cannot think of anything that epitomizes this more."